The UAB Dance and Theatre workshops premiere their shows
During the month of May, the UAB Theatre will host a series of shows created by the Dance, Theatre and Music classrooms that are the result of the work carried out during this academic year. It is a good opportunity for the UAB community to get to know contemporary theatre and dance free of charge and, at the same time, to promote and raise awareness of new artistic trends.
12/05/2023
On Wednesday 17 May there will be two performances, at 2 p.m. and 5 p.m., by the students of the Initiation to Contemporary Dance workshop and those of the intermediate level. The members of the initiation group, directed by Mario G. Saez, will perform the choreography Ephemerals. The choreographic exhibition is the result of the meeting of six women from different backgrounds who, through their bodies, shape a common reality and build an eternal movement with ephemeral dance. With this performance, Saez wants to ask the spectator whether human beings can make eternal a gesture or a movement that is essentially ephemeral and, on the other hand, whether they can leave an indelible mark on the retina of those who watch them, knowing that their movement never stops.
On the other hand, the intermediate students, under the direction of Laia Santanach, present Rise, a journey in movement where rising is the starting point for any kind of communication between twelve bodies that walk, meet, attract and understand each other. A group that forms a gear in which clashes of personalities are generated and celebrate the detachment from the gravity that presses them together.
In relation to the own productions of the UAB Theatre classroom, on Tuesday 23 May, at 5 p.m., the members of the Initiation to Theatre Performance workshop, directed by Màrcia Cisteró, offer the play Sketches and other pieces, a compilation of original scenes by the English playwright Harold Pinter in which aspects related to the uncertainty of being and the truth of the word are dealt with.
Cisteró defines this show as “a set of short pieces where it seems that nothing important is being talked about, environments in which the most normal everyday life reigns, but very soon, a disturbing strangeness begins to invade this normality”. In addition, the teacher of one of the workshops of the UAB Theatre classroom stresses that the challenge for her students in this course is, as Pinter said, “the essential facts are in the text, what is missing has to be invented, according to each actor”.
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